5/9/2023 0 Comments Beast by Peter Benchley![]() A bold, but a shrewd act of faith on his part. But my agent, the redoubtable Alan Gasmer, insisted I do or the network couldn’t have it. I was so green, in fact, that when I sold my first project (a story that became the TV movie GRAMPS, starring Andy Griffith), the buying network didn’t want me to write it. I was very new to the business (though not young by Hollywood standards I was 43). Now 26 years later, Paul Downey caught up with J.B to reflect on this fantastic Benchley adaptation and discuss how a big-budget reboot would work.Ĭan you tell us how you got involved with adapting The Beast? This was the task given to J.B White in 1996, with The Beast, a tale of a small coastal town terrorised by a giant squid was to become a TV mini-series. ![]() ![]() For someone new to screenwriting, adapting the work of Peter Benchley is both exhilarating and daunting. ![]()
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